I'm majorly on the fence about kids right now. I was sick with baby fever for months and months, and now I've turned a corner where I'm extremely enjoying having the free time/income to do whatever I feel like. My sister has a 4 month old and swears it's the greatest thing ever, and my sister in law just told us she's…

Changing jobs with every pregnancy is an absurd proposition.

You are being so ridiculous that I had to comment for the first time ever on this site. You’re a med student, right? I am also a med student at a US allopathic school, a third year, and I am the same age as you. I also have 2 small children, so I feel like I am in a place to give you some perspective. While I am happy…

You know, you keep saying this advice is “effective,” but you are repeating it secondhand from your mom, who was raising children in a different era — treating anecdote and opinion as time-tested fact. My mother’s experience (in the same era!) is no less true or valid than that of yours; my mother’s advice could not…

I’m a single mom to a very young child. I already have a nanny that works 50+ hour weeks, and friends that are maxxed out filling in for me beyond that so I can do basic things like get haircuts and therapy appointments. I work a demanding full-time job in finance. When the tragedy occurred that granted me single mom…

That comment was from the thread that Ladyology was referring to from a few weeks ago when she said (in today’s comment):

So was mine. When she was pregnant with her youngest, she worked in an environment that was literally almost completely male, so she pretty much wrote the policy for how to handle mat leave, prescribed bed rest, etc. She worked 70 hour weeks through my childhood and, alongside my highly active co-parent of a dad, was…

You have no idea what you will or will not do regarding children you do not have.

“A mom responded that she loves her children so much that she could never not mention them constantly. (Okay, dude; hope we never share a lunch break, because you sound dull.)“

Gosh, I love her. She’s just a great person and unabashed nutball.

Where White People Meet:

The NAACP’s response is perfect. “Um, billboards are expensive and this is UTAH.”

Where white people meet? Isn’t that just church, Walmart and the gun range?

1.“Zooey con­verted to Judaism for Jacob,” an insider reveals to Us.

It actually was excellent. I used 1.5 times the recipe for basic yellow cake on Kin Arthur’s cake flour, and then added fancy chocolate chips. I made a plain buttercream like she wanted and dusted it with a little pink sugar for sparkle. Thank you. I did make it with love. I’m really only barely adequate at cake…

it’s beautiful. it doesn’t look like anyone. i like that in a cake.

Not scary at all but an update for those of you who remember my story from last year about our friendly ghost named Seymour:

There’s preference, and there’s prejudice. Most people tend to prefer, based on behaviors analyzed of 25 million OK Cupid users, someone of the same race. As this Guardian video on racist dating illustrates, white men do pretty well, while black and Asian men do not.